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Discover Hudson Valley Ride

lorene — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:20:31 +0000

I recently did the Bike New York Hudson Valley Ride with my parents and my sister Natalie. It was my first try to give my new-to-me Fuji Finest RC a real workout and the longest ride I’ve ever done! My parents opted for the 15mile while Natalie and I did the 30 miler.T

The big attraction of this event was riding over the Hudson Riverwalk bridge.

We stopped to take some photos. This is my parents and my sister.

Once we crossed the bridge my parents continued on but we came back across and headed to the Hyde Park loop. Our first rest stop was in a Drive-In Movie Theater.

We rode past the FDR Estate & Presidential Library as well as the Vanderbilt Mansion. I managed to blow by one turn, but Natalie yelled and I stopped not too far past it. There was one tortuous country road that just kept going up and up, but my sister and I managed to ride up everything. Go us!

We ended up getting back before my parents. They insisted they were taking their time and stopping to take photos which is why it took them longer to ride 15 miles than we did 30. Yeah right, Mom. At the end there was coconut water, and t-shirts, and PIE!

March Training Totals

lorene — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:38:18 +0000

I don’t think I’ve mentioned on here yet that I’m doing a triathlon this summer. My two sisters are also doing it but I plan to beat them and with the Inaugural Vosky Cup (which Natalie is tasked with creating). The event isn’t until August but I started my training earlier this month.

Swimming and biking aren’t too hard but I haven’t ran seriously since I was in high school. So I started 3 weeks ago and now I can pretty much run 30 minutes straight. I’m not quite to doing the full 5k but I’m sure I’ll be there soon.

Anyway I was checking out my training totals for the month and it’s awesome to see I’ve done over 100 miles this month of which 28 were running! Not too shabby. I am also going to start increasing the amount of time I’m training so those numbers will be going up.

Some other cool fun facts…I’m now the mayor of my gym on fourquare and according the LA Fitness iphone app I’ve been to the gym 19/30 days or 63%.� Not bad!

Guess I’m going to have to learn…

lorene — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:46:17 +0000

how to do this whole clipless pedal thing. I ordered these today.

I also signed up for the Bike New York – Discover Hudson Valley Ride.

My New Bike

lorene — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:16:02 +0000

I’m training for a triathlon this summer and beloved Bianchi Milano just doesn’t cut it as a race bike. So I started keeping an eye out on ebay and craigslist for used bikes. Last week I came across an ad for a used Fuji Finest RC which looked really good. I ended up winning it and I got it yesterday. I’m so excited to ride it!

Biking at the Beach

lorene — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:08:35 +0000

Sunday morning the family went down to my sister’s place in Long Branch. We got out the bikes and rode down to Ashbury Park. We had brunch at a place on boardwalk called Dorians. I think technically it’s in Ocean Grove. I had some really yummy apple walnut pancakes. Then we hopped back on our bikes and rode back.

We just beat the crazy thunderstorms. As we were riding back it was rumbling thunder and lightening behind us. We had to strap the bikes onto the rack as it started to pour so I got a little wet, but at least we got in before the hail started! My bike is awesome. I finally gave up on finding the helmet I want in a shop and ordered it.